You are here:

Authors Tanya Biank and Tracy Crow Speak to Saint Leo Audiences in April

March 06, 2013

Saint Leo University has arranged for
two authors known for telling contemporary stories of women and
military life to appear before university audiences in April. The
two, separate events will take place in Virginia and at University
Campus as part of the ongoing 40th Military Anniversary.

Saint Leo is creating special programming at many
teaching locations to help commemorate 40 years of providing
educational services to servicemembers, veterans, and their
families. The events will continue through Veterans Day 2013.

At 1 p.m., on Thursday, April 4, Tanya Biank, author
of Army Wives will speak at Fort Eustis Jacobs Theater, at
the corner of Monroe and Jackson avenues in Newport News, VA,
23604. A book signing will follow. Army Wives was the
inspiration for the popular drama still running on the Lifetime
cable television network.

Her new book, just out in February, is titled
Undaunted: The Real Story of America's Servicewomen in Today's
Military.

The program is free and open to the public, though
reservations are appreciated. Email Virginia@saintleo.edu by
April 1.

At 3:30 p.m., Friday,
April 5, Marine memoirist Tracy Crow will speak at University
Campus in Greenfelder-Denlinger Boardroom C of the Student
Community Center. She is the author of Eyes Right: Confessions
from a Woman Marine, about her experiences as a military
journalist during the groundbreaking 1980s. Eyes Right won
the bronze distinction in the recent Florida Book Awards.

Additionally, her short story, "Natural Selection,"
based on events from her life as a Marine, has been
anthologized alongside work from Tim O'Brien, Tobias Wolff, and
Kurt Vonnegut in the Press 53 collection Home of the Brave.
Crow has also written a novel (using the pen name Carver Greene)
called An Unlawful Order featuring a female military
officer as the main character.

She teaches creative writing at Eckerd College in St.
Petersburg, Florida.

This event is also free and open to the public, with
parking available in the garage at University Campus. Her
appearance coincides with the beginning of Alumni Weekend at
University Campus, at 33701 State Road 52, Saint Leo, four miles
east of Interstate 75 (Exit 285).

For further information on this event, please contact
Nikki Collins, assistant director of alumni relations at (352)
588-8837 or nichole.collins@saintleo.edu.